The meaning of “גַב”
Understanding gab reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, (eye) brows, nave, ring. - the back (as rounded) - by analogy, the top or rim,...
גַב
back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, (eye) brows, nave, ring. - the back (as rounded) - by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc. 1) convex surface, back 1a) back (of man) 1b) mound (for illicit worship) 1c) boss (convex projection of shield) 1d) bulwarks, breastworks (of arguments-fig.) 1e) brow, eyebrow 1f) rim (of wheel)
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Leviticus 14:9 | “But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.” Word: גַב (gab) | |
| 1 Kings 7:33 | “And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.” Word: גַב (gab) | |
| Job 15:26 | “He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:” Word: גַב (gab) | |
| Psalms 129:3 | “The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.” Word: גַב (gab) | |
| Ezekiel 16:31 | “In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;” Word: גַב (gab) |
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